A few behind-the-scenes updates

Hey y'all! We've been in behind-the-scenes mode the past few days getting a lot of back end stuff in order and it feels like we haven't filmed anything in forever (three days = forever). So I thought I'd tell you guys about some of the stuff going on (I guess it's also kind of day-in-the-life if you're curious about some of the stuff that goes into making stuff on YouTube full time that you don't see in the videos).

So we learned that reaching out to companies in December to set up anything that month or in January is a bad idea because budgets are running out and everyone is scrambling trying to wrap up for the holidays. Of course, in the moment we were getting sorta worried because we just weren't hearing back from companies we'd worked with in the past which makes our brains be like "well it was a good run gang, but no one wants to work with you now!"

So we did a handful of non-sponsored videos (which we can afford to do sometimes because we have support from you guys!), and in mid-January we reached out to a bunch of sponsors and it seems like everyone is replying ALL AT ONCE. So we're scrambling over here trying to fit everyone in, and we're basically booked up through May with sponsors now which is really exciting! Take that self-doubting brains! Ok maybe it was just my brain, Evan seemed pretty calm/confident during the whole thing.

We're also trying to plan a vacation because we used to go on a big 2-week trip every year, and we've skipped the past 2 because we were working on the channel. But we keep putting sponsor commitments where we tentatively plan vacation days so... we'll see if we can make that happen.

We're also trying to figure out what's going on with Evan's health (some doctors said it was a hernia, some said it wasn't, we're basically getting a CT scan so we can hopefully find out for sure). No real updates there, just trying to schedule projects that don't require crazy heavy lifting, but we do in general have a really hard time letting ourselves take a break (even during our imaginary 2 week vacation, we'd still be posting one video while we're away). But I think the inability to take a break is a pretty common "struggle" for anyone doing their own business (I put struggle in quotation marks because we're actually really super lucky to be doing this and have the opportunity to struggle with things like this). 

Anyways, just wanted to fill y'all in on some of the stuff going on. Oh! This Friday we're finally launching our podcast setup video which is when we're also announcing it on YouTube (we've only announced it here and on social media, so that should be exciting!)

Ok signing off for now,

Katelyn